it was actively prompting to enable the feature during or shortly after setup which could be easily confused for being part of the process and most people i know didn’t actively read it, activated it and then where wondering why they get messages from X (sms) suddenly in signal, or assuming people are on signal, because it suggested regular contacts as well (which would be unencrypted sms)

sms Integration was the reason i wasn’t using it for a long time and then always made sure this was turned off because it was soo confusing for me and everyone i tried to get to signal

Google doing the same thing with chrome, sabotaging youtube under Firefox, etc.

i want to see both of them fined heavily and best case forced to split some of their products out to separate companies (not sure how much that helps though)

until you realize, that “second” is also not the base unit. it’s not at obvious because it isn’t metric, but second is just the second subdivision of an hour (the first being the minute)

i really do want to use it and I’m definitely not questioning it’s quality since it’s recommended here a lot. my concern/issue is that it’s a us company

i have com domains as well and the whois information is redacted there as well

I’m currently struggling to decide between migadu and mxroute. migadu is in Switzerland (EU would be even better though), and mxroute in the US. But migadu is also significantly more expensive than mxroute (e.g. 30Gb 90$ migadu vs 50gb 70$ mxroute )

also I’m not entirely sure what you need the whois privacy for. i just checked my ccTLDs and regular TLDs - mostly on cloudflare for now - and all of them have my data redacted